Deluxe edition limited to 150 copies. Large 4to. Title printed in red and black. Illustrated by Warwick Goble with colour frontispiece and 31 colour plates, all mounted to brown card, and with captioned tissue guards. Published by Macmillan & Co (London), 1911.
Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red levant morocco, with their binder’s signature stamped in gilt to front turn-in. The front and back cover with an elaborately designed matching block in gilt and with red onlays, the area surrounding the block tooled in gilt with a roll, decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second, fourth and sixth panels, the other panels gilt tooled with matching decorative emblem. The edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt filets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
A fine example.
Warwick Goble (1862-1943) was the resident gift book illustrator at the publisher, Macmillan, and "one of the busiest and most versatile British illustrators of the Golden Age" (Dalby, p. 92). Stories from the Pentamerone was a seminal fairy-tale collection, containing early versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. The stories were originally written down by Giambattista Basile (1566-1632) from oral Italian sources in the 17th century and was the acknowledged source for the fairy tale collections of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers. The text for this edition was taken from John Edward Taylor's 1847 translation. The stories have played an important role in the history of folklore and fairy tale literature.
The editor of this work, Edward Fairbrother Strange (1862-1929), was an assistant keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a member of the Japan Society, and the author of various books on Japanese illustration, including “The Colour-Prints of Japan” and “Japanese Illustration.”
(Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, 1991.) (Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art.)
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Deluxe edition limited to 150 copies. Large 4to. Title printed in red and black. Illustrated by Warwick Goble with colour frontispiece and 31 colour plates, all mounted to brown card, and with captioned tissue guards. Published by Macmillan & Co (London), 1911.
Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red levant morocco, with their binder’s signature stamped in gilt to front turn-in. The front and back cover with an elaborately designed matching block in gilt and with red onlays, the area surrounding the block tooled in gilt with a roll, decorative corner pieces tooled in gilt. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second, fourth and sixth panels, the other panels gilt tooled with matching decorative emblem. The edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt filets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
A fine example.
Warwick Goble (1862-1943) was the resident gift book illustrator at the publisher, Macmillan, and "one of the busiest and most versatile British illustrators of the Golden Age" (Dalby, p. 92). Stories from the Pentamerone was a seminal fairy-tale collection, containing early versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. The stories were originally written down by Giambattista Basile (1566-1632) from oral Italian sources in the 17th century and was the acknowledged source for the fairy tale collections of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers. The text for this edition was taken from John Edward Taylor's 1847 translation. The stories have played an important role in the history of folklore and fairy tale literature.
The editor of this work, Edward Fairbrother Strange (1862-1929), was an assistant keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a member of the Japan Society, and the author of various books on Japanese illustration, including “The Colour-Prints of Japan” and “Japanese Illustration.”
(Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, 1991.) (Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art.)
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
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